Letter 2030

Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – June 28, 1715


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Date: June 28, 1715
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 61-62



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Hearne discusses scholarship and the publishing industry in detail. He includes a bill outlining the costs of his work. Mr Bremeway has had to deal with Mr Terry’s affairs, which has caused problems. Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).




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